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4Leners Patent.N0.1o4,42s,d-fnez June 21, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT' IN' WATER-WHEELS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pari: of the same- 1, ALPHEUs C. CORPE, of Stafford, Tolland county,

1 lState of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in` Turbine-Wheels, of which the fol- Alowingis adescription andspecication.

Nattwctmd Object ofthe Invention. i

Myv invention relates to certain improvements in the 'construction and arrangement of the buckets; and

` also further consists in' aurimproved form of space betweenthe sets of buckets, for the purpose of rendering the wheel more effective.

yDescription of thepAcconzpa-nyz'ug Drmcing.

Figure I is an edge view of the wheel, showing the 'buckets and form 'of space between.

`,;Figure II isa plan view of the wheel and case'with the top removed.

nl General Description.

. A is thewbecl, provided with two sets of buckets, v caaandbbb. p'

These buckets are so armngedas to form a space,

H, between them, of peculiarshape, as Iwill now dcscribe.

Between each pair of buckets the space is formeel,-

as shown, being larger t c than at d, as shown in Fig. I, the sidcs.taperingtoward each other from c to fl.

The buckets are formed as shown in Fig. 1I, and have openings g g g arranged so as to discharge the water at the topv and bottoni of the wheel.

The arrangement of the space, between thc buckets before described, is for the purpose of forming and utilizing a currentk around the wbeel,`and the water,

Vin passing around this space, acts in a wedge-like manner upon the inclined sides m m ot this space.

'I claim as my invention-- The combination of twosets of buckets, a b, with the space `H between them, constructed and arranged as set fox-tb. y

ALPHEUS G. OORPE.

Witnesses:

J. B. GARDINER, It. F. HYDE. 

